Top emDOCs Posts of 2024
- Jan 1st, 2025
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Authors: Brit Long, MD (@long_brit – EM Attending Physician, San Antonio, TX); Manpreet Singh, MD (@MPrizzleER – Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine / Department of Emergency Medicine – Harbor-UCLA Medical Center); and Alex Koyfman, MD (@EMHighAK – EM Attending Physician, UT Southwestern Medical Center / Parkland Memorial Hospital)
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Without further ado, here is our list of top posts published in 2024 based on viewership from you, the readers:
2024 AHA Scientific Statement on Management of Elevated Blood Pressure
We start off the list with a guideline update from the AHA on the management of elevated blood pressure.
Our second top post is another guideline update on the management of the post ROSC patient.
ECG Pointers: A Dynamic Approach to Tachydysrhythmias Part 2
Lloyd Tannenbaum, Mai Saber, and Rachel Bridwell cover narrow and irregular tachydysryhtmias.
Medical Malpractice Insights: A Rare Presentation – Groin pain? Nec fasc? Diabetes? Appendicitis?
Medical Malpractice Insights covers a challenging case of a patient with thigh/groin pain.
Blood Pressure Management in Neurologic Emergencies: What Does the Evidence Say?
Sameer Desai and Omar Abbas Ahmed Malik cover BP management in the patient with neurologic emergency.
Guideline Updates: Corticosteroids in Sepsis, ARDS, Community-Acquired Pneumonia
This post covers the SCCM guideline updates on steroids in sepsis, ARDS, and community-acquired pneumonia.
ECG Pointers: A Dynamic Approach to Tachydysrhythmias Part 3
Lloyd Tannenbaum, Mai Saber, and Rachel Bridwell return are back on the list to cover wide and irregular tachydysrhythmias.
EM@3AM: Retroperitoneal Hematoma
Iosif Davidov covers retroperitoneal bleeding in this EM@3AM.
Pain Management of Common Chief Complaints in the ED
This post from Nikhil B. Bhana, Clarence Kong, Mani Hashemi, and S.M. Jafar Mahmood provides you with key components of pain management in the ED.
Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia and HIV: A Practical Guide for ED Diagnosis and Management
Kamoga Dickson and Jessica Pelletier cover the diagnosis and treatment of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia and HIV.
Stay tuned for 2025! We have more exciting posts and changes that will improve your practice of EM!